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mr. hamm chairs a group that advises mr. romney on energy. we asked the romney campaign this summer to else is on the group. they told us they would not be releasing those names. they told us they would keep us posted if and when they do. we know how much sheldon adelson is giving. but all we know for sure is that he has beaten the previous record for previous elections. we don't know if he holds the current record. think about it. does sheldon adelson have competition? if someone else was spending even more man than sheldon adelson to win the election this, how would we know? >>> okay. the secret mitt romney fund raiser video that kicked off mitt romney's very bad week last week is everywhere in the campaign now. and features in the new t.v. ad the obama campaign is in ohio today much it's also the subject of two obama campaign web videos. all reporting on this video has been different than everybody else's. we were part of the story how this came into the public eye in the first place. late last month a piece of the video was posted to a yo
mr. hamm chairs a group that advises mr. romney on energy. we asked the romney campaign this summer to else is on the group. they told us they would not be releasing those names. they told us they would keep us posted if and when they do. we know how much sheldon adelson is giving. but all we know for sure is that he has beaten the previous record for previous elections. we don't know if he holds the current record. think about it. does sheldon adelson have competition? if someone else was...
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romney objected to what the boy looked like. mr. romney is not disputing that the incident happened back when he was a teenager, and in the story he's quoted as saying, "he can't look like that, that's wrong. just look at him." mr. romney told that to a close friend in his dorm. that friend a few days later, quote, entered mr. romney's dorm, and they shouting about a plan to cut his hair. the younger student screamed for help and mitt romney repeatedly clipped his hair with a pair of scissors. one man who is joined in having restraining the boy that they attacked, told "the post," quote, to this day it troubles me, what a senseless, stupid, idiotic thing to do. a childhood friend of mr. romney who saw it all happen that day told "the post," it was vicious. even though the incident was confirmed to "the washington post" by five different students who were at school with romney, his campaign spokesperson initially responded to the story today by saying it was a lie. she said, "the stories seem exaggerates and off base and governor rom
romney objected to what the boy looked like. mr. romney is not disputing that the incident happened back when he was a teenager, and in the story he's quoted as saying, "he can't look like that, that's wrong. just look at him." mr. romney told that to a close friend in his dorm. that friend a few days later, quote, entered mr. romney's dorm, and they shouting about a plan to cut his hair. the younger student screamed for help and mitt romney repeatedly clipped his hair with a pair of...
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mr. hamm chairs a group that advises mr. romney on energy. we're not allowed to know who is in that group. we asked the romney campaign this summer to else is on the group. they told us they would not be releasing those names. they told us they would keep us posted if and when they do. we know how much sheldon adelson is giving. but all we know for sure is that he has beaten the previous record for previous elections. we don't know if he holds the current record. think about it. does sheldon adelson have competition? if someone else was spending even more man than sheldon adelson to win the election this, how would we know? [ male announcer ] the 2013 smart comes with 8 airbags, a crash management system and the world's only tridion safety cell which can withstand over three and a half tons. small in size. big on safety. which can withstand over three and a half tons. if we want to improve our schools... ...what should we invest in? maybe new buildings? what about updated equipment? they can help, but recent research shows... ...nothing trans
mr. hamm chairs a group that advises mr. romney on energy. we're not allowed to know who is in that group. we asked the romney campaign this summer to else is on the group. they told us they would not be releasing those names. they told us they would keep us posted if and when they do. we know how much sheldon adelson is giving. but all we know for sure is that he has beaten the previous record for previous elections. we don't know if he holds the current record. think about it. does sheldon...
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mr. hamm chairs a group that advises mr. romney on energy. we asked the romney campaign this summer to else is on the group. they told us they would not be releasing those names. they told us they would keep us posted if and when they do. we know how much sheldon adelson is giving. but all we know for sure is that he has beaten the previous record for previous elections. we don't know if he holds the current record. think about it. does sheldon adelson have competition? if someone else was spending even more man than sheldon adelson to win the election this, how would we know? bob... oh, hey alex. just picking up some, brochures, posters copies of my acceptance speech. great! it's always good to have a backup plan, in case i get hit by a meteor. wow, your hair looks great. didn't realize they did photoshop here. hey, good call on those mugs. can't let 'em see what you're drinking. you know, i'm glad we're both running a nice, clean race. no need to get nasty. here's your "honk if you had an affair with taylor" yard sign. looks good. [ male an
mr. hamm chairs a group that advises mr. romney on energy. we asked the romney campaign this summer to else is on the group. they told us they would not be releasing those names. they told us they would keep us posted if and when they do. we know how much sheldon adelson is giving. but all we know for sure is that he has beaten the previous record for previous elections. we don't know if he holds the current record. think about it. does sheldon adelson have competition? if someone else was...
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romney invoke mr. bush but was not able to make out the context and was again escorted away by a campaign staffer. the romney campaign went to great length to allow there to be a dick cheney appearance last night while also squel ching evidence they had had anything to do with each other. and in the same news cycle, in that same news cycle, somebody in romney land had the genius idea of floating as mr. romney's vice presidential nominee, the highest profile person from the bush/cheney administration who was not george bush or dick cheney. so they're getting new communications in over at romneyland. seems like a good idea. with or without these, i'm sure excellent new communications folks coming in to try to tune up the shop at rom com, it's going to be hard for them to run from the real connections between mr. romney's campaign and the last republican presidency. i mean, even if mitt romney has so far managed to avoid being seen next to george w. bush, there are now a bunch of statements on the record
romney invoke mr. bush but was not able to make out the context and was again escorted away by a campaign staffer. the romney campaign went to great length to allow there to be a dick cheney appearance last night while also squel ching evidence they had had anything to do with each other. and in the same news cycle, in that same news cycle, somebody in romney land had the genius idea of floating as mr. romney's vice presidential nominee, the highest profile person from the bush/cheney...
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this is mr. romney's new hello babies add. the phrase hello babies was coined by one cat.com, but it's less awkward language than the language which this ad actually starts. >> dear daughter, welcome to america. your share of obama's debt is $50,000 and it grows every day. welcome daughter. >> to this obama hell scape. don't with you wish you could go back to where you came from. >> is she a foreign baby? maybe she did a trimester abroad? hello, foreign babies. welcome to america. vote for mitt romney? the romney campaign is in serious trouble. but you do what you've got to do in these situations you've got to put one foot in front of the other and they have decided the way they're going to get out of these problems and the way they're going to take these steps is going to be baby steps. welcome to america? seriously, who's making the decisions in this campaign right now. >>> okay. best new thing in the world today. specifically, it is the best new thing in mitt romney's world today. it was a chance for him to get on televisio
this is mr. romney's new hello babies add. the phrase hello babies was coined by one cat.com, but it's less awkward language than the language which this ad actually starts. >> dear daughter, welcome to america. your share of obama's debt is $50,000 and it grows every day. welcome daughter. >> to this obama hell scape. don't with you wish you could go back to where you came from. >> is she a foreign baby? maybe she did a trimester abroad? hello, foreign babies. welcome to...
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this is mr. romney could be baby ad. it was first coined -- hello davies is less awkward than the real language the that it actually starts with. >> welcome to america. that is what obama's policies have done. >> welcome, and daughter, to this obama healthy. don't you wish you could go back to where you came from? why does she need to be unwelcome to america? -ish e-4 in baby? congratulations! maybe she did a trimester abroad. hello foreign babies. welcome to america. vote for matt ronny? they are in serious trouble, but you do what you have to do. put one foot in front of the other. they have very quietly decided that the way they will get out is by taking these steps. their steps will be baby steps. welcome to america? seriously, who is making the decisions in the campaign right now? whoa. right? get. out. exactly! really?! [ mom ] what? shut the front door. right? woop-woop! franklin delano! [ male announcer ] there's oreo creme under that fudge! oreo fudge cremes. now in two new flavors. to compete on the global stag
this is mr. romney could be baby ad. it was first coined -- hello davies is less awkward than the real language the that it actually starts with. >> welcome to america. that is what obama's policies have done. >> welcome, and daughter, to this obama healthy. don't you wish you could go back to where you came from? why does she need to be unwelcome to america? -ish e-4 in baby? congratulations! maybe she did a trimester abroad. hello foreign babies. welcome to america. vote for matt...
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you heard the president last night with mr. romney. mr. romney being a different mr. romney than we've seen him for the last 18 months or the last section years. do you think even with the new hit romney that showed up last night when he starts talking about states' rights, when he starts talking about regulation or deregulation, when he starts saying he doesn't advocate $5 trillion tax cut when in fact the numbers prove that he does and has been advocating that, will that resonate with independent voters and/or undecided voters in your state of ohio? >> i don't think so. i think people realize that governor romney is still wrong on medicare and still wrong on trade and still wrong on jobs and still wrong on the middle class. i think that's increasingly clear. again it goes back to which path do you go. do you want to go back to the trickle down economics you give tax cuts to the rich and hope it helps the middle class or do you focus on the middle class and that's trait enforcement, it's i don't think training at community colleges like columbus state and sinclair. i
you heard the president last night with mr. romney. mr. romney being a different mr. romney than we've seen him for the last 18 months or the last section years. do you think even with the new hit romney that showed up last night when he starts talking about states' rights, when he starts talking about regulation or deregulation, when he starts saying he doesn't advocate $5 trillion tax cut when in fact the numbers prove that he does and has been advocating that, will that resonate with...
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she says she disagrees with mr. romney. mark meadows, running for congress as a republican in north carolina, says that he is different from mitt romney. lamontagne, running in new hampshire, promising not to be a partisan -- is promising not to be a partisan governor in the style of mr. romney and his 47% speech. but here's maybe the biggest panic button that there is on the republican side right now. it's from the "huffington post" today. a republican operative working on congressional races, quote, warned that in key swing states, mitt romney's support and internal polling is well below that of republican candidates in districts where the presidential nominee needs to get big support to have a chance at winning. this is the quote from the republican operative. "he is just well under all of our other guys," this republican said, "i'm very concerned." think about what that means for a second. what they're talking about here is key districts in key swing states. ones where mitt romney really needs to win big in order to win
she says she disagrees with mr. romney. mark meadows, running for congress as a republican in north carolina, says that he is different from mitt romney. lamontagne, running in new hampshire, promising not to be a partisan -- is promising not to be a partisan governor in the style of mr. romney and his 47% speech. but here's maybe the biggest panic button that there is on the republican side right now. it's from the "huffington post" today. a republican operative working on...
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this may come from the way mr. romney was beaten in 2008. it may have left his campaign determined that he not get stuck with the flip flopper label again. even though they leave the ads with the lies in them up and sometimes mr. romney goes on tv invents a brand new policy position he's never had before. after he does that, his staff follows behind him and quietly releasing statements faeg back his quotes. when mr. romney was asked in an interview last week about one of his immigration advisers. he said he could not confirm whether kris kobch was part of his team. and they yes, he's a romney campaign adviser. so he tells an interview he's never met with him but his campaign says what he said was not true. same thing happened last month when mr. romney came out with a whole new policy position on abortion rights. >> i'm in favor of abortion being legal in the case of rape and incest in the health of the life of the mother. >> he says he believes abortion should be allowed to protect a woman's health. afterwards the campaign said that's not w
this may come from the way mr. romney was beaten in 2008. it may have left his campaign determined that he not get stuck with the flip flopper label again. even though they leave the ads with the lies in them up and sometimes mr. romney goes on tv invents a brand new policy position he's never had before. after he does that, his staff follows behind him and quietly releasing statements faeg back his quotes. when mr. romney was asked in an interview last week about one of his immigration...
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first a plug for mitt romney from "the simpsons." here is mr. burns, the fictional and highly unpopular owner of springfield's nuclear plant, in pre-election panic mode. >> i have to say, despite those unimaginably horrible good job numbers, we're feeling pretty confident. there's only one thing that might deny us the presidency that is the god-given property of the republican party. >> the 47% tape? >> nope. >> the empty chair? >> nope. >> cayman islands? >> not a problem. >> swiss bank accounts? $10,000 bet? i like to fire people? >> no. it's a shaggy dog story about an actual shaggy dog. apparently while on vacation old mitt strapped his mutt to the roof of his car for a brief 650-mile jaunt. so tonight we will explain what truly happened. now, sheamus, what did you think of being strapped to the roof of your dada's car? what's that? you liked being tied to the roof of the car? because it allowed you to see more of this great land of ours and it's wonderful natural resources? ripe for drilling and mining and exploiting. anyway. >> wow. that's
first a plug for mitt romney from "the simpsons." here is mr. burns, the fictional and highly unpopular owner of springfield's nuclear plant, in pre-election panic mode. >> i have to say, despite those unimaginably horrible good job numbers, we're feeling pretty confident. there's only one thing that might deny us the presidency that is the god-given property of the republican party. >> the 47% tape? >> nope. >> the empty chair? >> nope. >> cayman...
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mr. romney told that same story about meeting mr. doherty yesterday while campaigning in iowa. >> he skied a lot, he skied in some of the places i had. we had a lot of things in common. he told me that he keeps going back to the middle east. he cares very deeply about the people there. you can imagine how i felt when i found out that he was one of the two former navy s.e.a.l.s killed in benghazi on september 11th. and it -- it touched me, obviously, as i recognized this young man that i thought was so impressive. he -- according to the reports on cnn international that i read, he was actually in a different building, in an annex, a safe place, somewhere else across town when he and his colleagues there heard that the consulate was around attack. and they went there. they didn't hunker down where they were in safety. they rushed there to go help. this is the american way. we go where there's trouble. we go where we're needed. and right now we're needed. right now the american people need us. >> politicians repeat the same stories on t
mr. romney told that same story about meeting mr. doherty yesterday while campaigning in iowa. >> he skied a lot, he skied in some of the places i had. we had a lot of things in common. he told me that he keeps going back to the middle east. he cares very deeply about the people there. you can imagine how i felt when i found out that he was one of the two former navy s.e.a.l.s killed in benghazi on september 11th. and it -- it touched me, obviously, as i recognized this young man that i...
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. >> mr. romney wants to get rid of funding for planned parenthood. i think that is a bad idea. i've got two daughters. i want them to control their own health care choices. >> i think the president addressed this strongly and i think he's saying in the same spirit of the bipartisan bill that passed the senate. >> absolutely. i mean, this president understands that planned parenthood -- you know, what the republicans have you believe is that all planned parenthood does is abortions. the truth of the matter is 97% of what they do is health care, breast cancer screenings, cervical cancer screenings, well checkups. this is what they do. and they'll do charity work. they'll allow you to pay what you can afford. and for many women, reverend al, millions of women all across our great nation, they are the first line of care. and the republicans went straight after them. and frankly, i think they're on the wrong side. i think president obama is on the correct side. i think women know who's on their side. i hope they know who's on their side. if you look at mr. romney, he wants to overtu
. >> mr. romney wants to get rid of funding for planned parenthood. i think that is a bad idea. i've got two daughters. i want them to control their own health care choices. >> i think the president addressed this strongly and i think he's saying in the same spirit of the bipartisan bill that passed the senate. >> absolutely. i mean, this president understands that planned parenthood -- you know, what the republicans have you believe is that all planned parenthood does is...
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romney in michigan. part of the problem in michigan is that mr. romney undermine his greatest asset in the state with his dad having been both a governor and car company auto executive there and undermine that asset with a famous op-ed that let detroit go bankrupt that if gm, ford and chrysler get bailout from the federal government "you can kiss the american automotive industry good-bye." mr. romney wrote the auto industry's demise would be guaranteed by bailout. now in another op-ed, this one in "the detroit news" mr. romney is trying to sort of defend and sort of walk back the whole let detroit go bankrupt thing. he's now saying that he still thinks it would have been right to let the auto industry in america go bankrupt. he also says that mr. obama saving the industry in the short-term actually made things much worse than they would have been for detroit. that was a hard line for mitt romney to be toeing a couple lines ago when he wrote that op-ed. it's a particularly hard line to be toeing today. >> full year general motors made a record prof
romney in michigan. part of the problem in michigan is that mr. romney undermine his greatest asset in the state with his dad having been both a governor and car company auto executive there and undermine that asset with a famous op-ed that let detroit go bankrupt that if gm, ford and chrysler get bailout from the federal government "you can kiss the american automotive industry good-bye." mr. romney wrote the auto industry's demise would be guaranteed by bailout. now in another...
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mr. romney and mr. ryan are trying to suggest that an insult to half the nation was actually a philosophical statement of difference between their ticket and the president. do you buy stage two in their tale of the tape, the tape you brought to the nation's attention? >> thank you, martin. thank you for pitching the book for me. >> pleasure. >> this is really a grand game of bait and switch here. there is a debate to be had. you read "showdown" and it's interesting, i wrote that barack obama -- i guess mitt romney, too -- wanted this campaign to be one about clashing values between, you know, over the role of government, community action, individual liberty, tax rates and all that stuff. that's sort of what we're getting. but what mitt romney said at that may 17th fund-raiser was not about policy or ideological difference. i mean, the great thing about this story is that people can go and just look at the tape again and again and again and see that he was dismissing everyone who votes for obama. all 47%
mr. romney and mr. ryan are trying to suggest that an insult to half the nation was actually a philosophical statement of difference between their ticket and the president. do you buy stage two in their tale of the tape, the tape you brought to the nation's attention? >> thank you, martin. thank you for pitching the book for me. >> pleasure. >> this is really a grand game of bait and switch here. there is a debate to be had. you read "showdown" and it's interesting,...
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mr. romney wrote the auto industry's demise would be by b. now in another op-ed, this one in "the detroit news" mr. romney is trying to sort of defend and sort of walk back the whole let detroit go bankrupt thing. he's now saying that he still thinks it would have been right to let the auto industry in america go bankrupt. he also says that mr. obama saving the industry in the short-term actually made things much worse than they would have been for detroit. that was a hard line for mitt romney to be toeing a couple lines ago when he wrote that op-ed. it's a particularly hard line to be toeing today. >> full year general motors made a record profit. $7.6 billion. in 2011 it made its biggest annual profit in gm's history. $7.6 billion. >> business is booming for an industry once on life support. >> most profitable year ever in 2011 making $7.6 billion and that's primarily driven by one huge rebound in sales here in north america. >> life support seems nice. so even though things look bad for mitt romney in michigan, we do know he has a strategy
mr. romney wrote the auto industry's demise would be by b. now in another op-ed, this one in "the detroit news" mr. romney is trying to sort of defend and sort of walk back the whole let detroit go bankrupt thing. he's now saying that he still thinks it would have been right to let the auto industry in america go bankrupt. he also says that mr. obama saving the industry in the short-term actually made things much worse than they would have been for detroit. that was a hard line for...
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romney why he was running away from his running mate's plan. so mr. romney then started running on the paul ryan kill medicare plan again. >> why now are you distancing yourself, at least from the medicare portion of the ryan budget? >> actually, paul ryan and my plan for medicare i think is the same, if not identical, it's probably close to identical. >> yay! so that's four days. two totally separate plans. they're the same plan. they're totally different plans. they're identical plans. it has been hard to keep up. they picked the republican budget guy, but they are not running on his budget. they're running on mitt romney's budget which is either exactly like the paul ryan budget or completely different than the paul ryan budget depending on, i don't know, what time of day it is? and when you ask them about the overall budget that they are running on, not just on medicare, when you ask them about the overall economic plan they've got, about what it does and when, look at what happens. >> i don't know exactly when it balances because we haven't -- i
romney why he was running away from his running mate's plan. so mr. romney then started running on the paul ryan kill medicare plan again. >> why now are you distancing yourself, at least from the medicare portion of the ryan budget? >> actually, paul ryan and my plan for medicare i think is the same, if not identical, it's probably close to identical. >> yay! so that's four days. two totally separate plans. they're the same plan. they're totally different plans. they're...
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one result is mr. romney criticizing mr. obama after a drone crashed in iran. then there's a policy paper criticizing the obama administration for talking about drones to news outlets like "the new york times" and you have one of the is your gates for killing osama bin laden. if you want to know what his policy is, by using flying killer robots to do it, the answer is that he also thinks killing bin laden was a good idea. he wouldn't crash one in iran. any questions? it is days like this when you realize that however important this presidential campaign is and this decision is, that we as a country have to make between these two candidates, our politics are essentially failing right now. they're essentially impotent now for debating questions like this one. choosing between candidates is supposed to be the way we choose between policies in important thing that affect or country including national security. but our politics have been allowed to shrink if one side doesn't want to talk about it, we're not going to debate it as a country. let people in washington f
one result is mr. romney criticizing mr. obama after a drone crashed in iran. then there's a policy paper criticizing the obama administration for talking about drones to news outlets like "the new york times" and you have one of the is your gates for killing osama bin laden. if you want to know what his policy is, by using flying killer robots to do it, the answer is that he also thinks killing bin laden was a good idea. he wouldn't crash one in iran. any questions? it is days like...
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romney campaign did not want mr. romney to be seen as the guy who wants to ban all abortion with no exceptions even though he has said he would like to do that. and it's impeer -- proven to be a massively unpopular position even in the reddest of the red states. that's one of the reasons paul ryan is such a baffling choice for the romney ticket. congressman paul ryan now presumptive vice presidential nominee paul ryan co-sponsored a bill in the house that is a federal version of the personhood amendment. the abortion and hormonal birth control ban, the same one that even mississippi voters rejected last fall. how would you like it for the whole country? the national personhood bill that paul ryan co-sponsored declares that quote, the life of each human being begins with fertilization, cloning, or the equivalent at which time each human being should have the attributes and privileges of personhood. and they get really specific about when precisely an egg becomes a person. it becomes the human sperm tuzoeza penetrating
romney campaign did not want mr. romney to be seen as the guy who wants to ban all abortion with no exceptions even though he has said he would like to do that. and it's impeer -- proven to be a massively unpopular position even in the reddest of the red states. that's one of the reasons paul ryan is such a baffling choice for the romney ticket. congressman paul ryan now presumptive vice presidential nominee paul ryan co-sponsored a bill in the house that is a federal version of the personhood...
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mr. romney railed against that old enemy of the state. liberalism. >> this old style liberalism has got to end and we will end it in november. >> yes, even the presumptive nominee seems to know he's not running as mr. romney. whoever that is. he's running as mr. i'm not the president and in that sense, his attack on the president, well, it felt rather wooden. >> by putting money into energy company, solar and energy companies that make their products outside the united states, if there's an out sourcer in chief, t the president of the united states, not the guy running to replace him. >> one suspects that even he knows that better than to play the outsourcing card or maybe he'll continue with his tour of falsehoods like saying obamacare is bad for jobs or that the president wants to raise taxes on the middle class or that the president goes around the r world apologizing for america. of course, saying it doesn't make it true, but that doesn't stop mr. romney. let's get to our panel. david corn, msnbc political analyst and washington edito
mr. romney railed against that old enemy of the state. liberalism. >> this old style liberalism has got to end and we will end it in november. >> yes, even the presumptive nominee seems to know he's not running as mr. romney. whoever that is. he's running as mr. i'm not the president and in that sense, his attack on the president, well, it felt rather wooden. >> by putting money into energy company, solar and energy companies that make their products outside the united states,...
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so we were able to get mr. romney on the record about it. i think mr. wallace at fox is usually pretty good with follow-up questions with politicians. he did not, however, ask the obvious follow-up at this point in the interview. >> this is a completely airtight kennel mounted on the top of our car. he climbed up there regularly. enjoyed himself. >> enjoyed himself. he later said he enjoyed his ride. enjoyed his ride. remember, though. the story that had just broken in the boston globe. the story that prompted his question to mr. romney in the first place was that seamus, however much he usually enjoy d himself on other occasions, on that 12-hour ride to canada was not enjoying himself. the whole point was that the dog was in very, very evident gastrointestinal distress. the brown liquid thing. the reporter from the boston globe who described the story in 2007, did not write about this incident again for four and a half years after he wrote the original story. he finally broke his silence and wrote about it again for the first time this week. you can te
so we were able to get mr. romney on the record about it. i think mr. wallace at fox is usually pretty good with follow-up questions with politicians. he did not, however, ask the obvious follow-up at this point in the interview. >> this is a completely airtight kennel mounted on the top of our car. he climbed up there regularly. enjoyed himself. >> enjoyed himself. he later said he enjoyed his ride. enjoyed his ride. remember, though. the story that had just broken in the boston...
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what's mr. romney getting at? and today he got closer to the ugly voices of the far right. >> all we want to do is see this birth certificate. >> not with the piece of garbage obama provided in the 2008 election. >> i don't know whether barack obama was born in the united states or not. >> i cannot in good faith report to you that these documents are authentic. >> you are not allowed to be president if you're not born inside country. he may not have been born in this country. >> all the president has to do is show it. >> all i can tell you that the general consensus is he had produced a birth certificate. the question is is it legitimate? >> perhaps it's going to say hawaii. perhaps it's goin to say kenya. president obama's camp responded today. liz smith tweeted mitt romney keeping it substantive and classy a la donald trump. says that no one has ever asked to see his birth certificate. ben labolt shot back quote, it's one thing to give the stage in tampa to donald trump, sheriff joe arpaio, and kris kobach but g
what's mr. romney getting at? and today he got closer to the ugly voices of the far right. >> all we want to do is see this birth certificate. >> not with the piece of garbage obama provided in the 2008 election. >> i don't know whether barack obama was born in the united states or not. >> i cannot in good faith report to you that these documents are authentic. >> you are not allowed to be president if you're not born inside country. he may not have been born in...
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romney and mr. ryan have committed themselves to ending all funding for planned parenthood's preventive care, overturning roe versus wade, to really taking away incredibly important rights and decisions that women currently have. unfortunately, it looks like this is going to continue to be a big topic in the presidential election as well as it appears to be the senate race in missouri. >> let's talk about the breast cancer screening program because you have apparently had a windfall of contributions after the controversy and now you're putting those to good use for additional breast cancer screening. this is a program you have launched today. tell us about it. >> we're very pleased to be launching the planned parenthood breast health initiative today. this is as a result of raising really in one week, more than $3 million from more than 70,000 folks who wanted to make sure that women who come to planned parenthood can get their cancer screenings and referrals for further treatment if they need it. w
romney and mr. ryan have committed themselves to ending all funding for planned parenthood's preventive care, overturning roe versus wade, to really taking away incredibly important rights and decisions that women currently have. unfortunately, it looks like this is going to continue to be a big topic in the presidential election as well as it appears to be the senate race in missouri. >> let's talk about the breast cancer screening program because you have apparently had a windfall of...
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romney in it's ron paul. and ron paul's campaign is taking a turn as well. since mr. gingrich started surging, ron paul has been running a series of pretty blistering anti-newt gngrich ads. but this week ron paul also started running ads for himself as an f-150 truck. here's the ford f-150 truck ad. you have probably seen this before. >> okay. odds are if you're one of the people in america with a pickup truck it ain't a luxury, it's a way of life. and chances are you're not making your money pushing a pencil or hand modeling. you're actually working for every dollar and need your truck. >> that's the f-150 ad. that's just for compare's sake. now here's the ron paul ad. >> what's up with these sorry politicians? lots of bark. when it's showtime, whimpering like little shih tzus. you want big cuts? ron paul's been screaming it for years. budget crisis? no problem. cut a trillion bucks year one. that's trillion with a t. department of education, gone. interior, energy, hud, commerce, gone. later, bureaucrats. that's how ron paul rolls. >> what are you, some kind of hand
romney in it's ron paul. and ron paul's campaign is taking a turn as well. since mr. gingrich started surging, ron paul has been running a series of pretty blistering anti-newt gngrich ads. but this week ron paul also started running ads for himself as an f-150 truck. here's the ford f-150 truck ad. you have probably seen this before. >> okay. odds are if you're one of the people in america with a pickup truck it ain't a luxury, it's a way of life. and chances are you're not making your...
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given that mr. romney and mr. ryan have given no details but have given a promise that they're going to reduce taxes by 20%, how does mitt romney deal with that tomorrow? what does he actually say that he has previously refused to say on explaining that? >> well, i think it's fascinating that they're treating mitt romney like he's the president and a lot in the media treat president obama like he's the challenger. what president george w. bush did when he was governor of texas is said i want to reduce taxes across the board and i want to make sure we have a balanced budget. he wasn't very specific during the campaign, and when he became president, he released a series of principles that went to capitol hill that said these are the measures that meet my -- >> here is the problem with that though, ron. people who have assessed his mathematics have deemed them to be completely impossible. michael, this is just in from mitt romney on how he'll pay for his massive 20% across the board tax cut. take a listen. >> everybo
given that mr. romney and mr. ryan have given no details but have given a promise that they're going to reduce taxes by 20%, how does mitt romney deal with that tomorrow? what does he actually say that he has previously refused to say on explaining that? >> well, i think it's fascinating that they're treating mitt romney like he's the president and a lot in the media treat president obama like he's the challenger. what president george w. bush did when he was governor of texas is said i...
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you can find the entire documentary called when mitt romney came to town. mr. gingrich is a supporter but before he was a supporter, at the time he was using this line of attack, frankly, newt gingrich was beating mitt romney by 13 points in south carolina. the you want to talk about bain baton has been handed off from rick perry and then newt gingrich to now president obama's campaign. this new ad for which there's a six-minute version and a six-minute version was released today. it highlights a kansas city steel factory that mitt romney and bain capital shut down. >> they made as much money as they could. they filed for bankruptcy without any concerns for the families of the community. >> it was like a vampire. they came in and sucked the life out of us. >> it was like watching an old friend bleed to death. it makes me sick. they didn't have the money to take care of the very people that made the money for them. >> bain capital walked away with a lot of money that they made off of this plant. we view mitt romney as a job destroyer. >> the last time the detail
you can find the entire documentary called when mitt romney came to town. mr. gingrich is a supporter but before he was a supporter, at the time he was using this line of attack, frankly, newt gingrich was beating mitt romney by 13 points in south carolina. the you want to talk about bain baton has been handed off from rick perry and then newt gingrich to now president obama's campaign. this new ad for which there's a six-minute version and a six-minute version was released today. it highlights...
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because it wasn't just mr. romney's tax returns that were released on friday, oh, no. his running mate, paul ryan, also released an amended return for 2011, and the reason? well, mr. ryan and mrs. ryan had somehow managed not to report an additional $61,122 in their original submission. this means that their original tax filing made well before mr. romney shot to fame as the vice president pick had denied the federal government almost $20,000 in revenue. so unlike mitt romney who chose to overpay the irs so that he could claim an income tax rate of 14%, mr. ryan actually underpaid his taxes. it's tough to keep up with these two. now, we're happy to report that mr. and mrs. ryan have made good on the underpayment and they also paid a penalty for their miscalculation. but isn't there something mall ode russ about a man who claims to be the model of fiscal discipline and personal integrity but somehow manages to overlook almost 20%
because it wasn't just mr. romney's tax returns that were released on friday, oh, no. his running mate, paul ryan, also released an amended return for 2011, and the reason? well, mr. ryan and mrs. ryan had somehow managed not to report an additional $61,122 in their original submission. this means that their original tax filing made well before mr. romney shot to fame as the vice president pick had denied the federal government almost $20,000 in revenue. so unlike mitt romney who chose to...
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romney and mr. ryan going in to tonight's debate, trying to tell voters what they say on television isn't what they're saying in other places. if that's effective, that will certainly hamper the romney effort to come back. it's an important measure, but not necessarily the most important. most importantly, the economy that really is very important. >> and we'll see how sole lid t solid the gains are after the next round of polls. suffolk university who also does rounds of polling, they decided to stop polling in virginia and florida because they already believe they're leaning towards romney. what do you make of that? >> i don't talk about other polls, but we're still polling in the states that we had planned on polling all along and virginia and florida are those states. >> and you'll keep on going. >> we expect to keep on going, yes. >> peter brown, thank you so much for joining us today. >>> may the force be with you. time now for the polysci war. here's what he told the young turks. he's very wi
romney and mr. ryan going in to tonight's debate, trying to tell voters what they say on television isn't what they're saying in other places. if that's effective, that will certainly hamper the romney effort to come back. it's an important measure, but not necessarily the most important. most importantly, the economy that really is very important. >> and we'll see how sole lid t solid the gains are after the next round of polls. suffolk university who also does rounds of polling, they...
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does mr. romney have a paul ryan problem? >>> plus, big developments tonight on the assault on voting rights in ohio. and a republican who is telling the truth about their plan. we'll be right back. [ male announcer ] introducing zzzquil sleep-aid. it's not for colds, it's not for pain, it's just for sleep. because sleep is a beautiful thing. ♪ zzzquil, the non-habit forming sleep-aid from the makers of nyquil. zzzquil, ♪ intel bong i've still got hou orsf battery life. it's an...
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mr. wilson explained without irony that the goal of prop 187 was, in fact, self-deportation. you will self-deport. he used the exact phrase used as satire without him woupt understanding it's satirical origins. the prop 187 episode was an important moment in republican politics. not just because it was literally a moment of self-parody but important about what it said about where the republican party was headed. now, there have always been nativists and anti-immigrant movements in the united states. prop 187 was the start of the modern republican party trying on super anti-immigrant policies for otherwise mainstream and ambitious republican politicians. when george w. bush tried to be a moderate on immigration, the reason he got no legislation passed through it is because he ran up against that other post-prop 187 pete wilson wing of his own party. pete wilson himself was essentially lost to history and forgotten after his role in the prop 187 con flag rags in california, and for all the
mr. wilson explained without irony that the goal of prop 187 was, in fact, self-deportation. you will self-deport. he used the exact phrase used as satire without him woupt understanding it's satirical origins. the prop 187 episode was an important moment in republican politics. not just because it was literally a moment of self-parody but important about what it said about where the republican party was headed. now, there have always been nativists and anti-immigrant movements in the united...
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first a plug for mitt romney from "the simpsons." here is mr. burns, the fictional and highly unpopular owner of springfield's nuclear plant, in pre-election panic mode. >> i have to say, despite those unimaginably horrible good job numbers, we're feeling pretty confident. there's only one thing that might deny us the presidency that is the god-given property of the republican party. >> the 47% tape? >> nope. >> the empty chair? >> nope. >> cayman islands? >> not a problem. >> swiss bank accounts? $10,000 bet? i like to fire people? >> no. it's a shaggy dog story about an actual shaggy dog. apparently while on vacation old mitt strapped his mutt to the roof of his car for a brief 650-mile jaunt. so tonight we will explain what truly happened. now, seamus, what did you think of being strapped to the roof of your dada's car? what's that? you liked being tied to the roof of the car? because it allowed you to see more of this great land of ours and it's wonderful natural resources? ripe for drilling and mining and exploiting. anyway. >> wow. that's
first a plug for mitt romney from "the simpsons." here is mr. burns, the fictional and highly unpopular owner of springfield's nuclear plant, in pre-election panic mode. >> i have to say, despite those unimaginably horrible good job numbers, we're feeling pretty confident. there's only one thing that might deny us the presidency that is the god-given property of the republican party. >> the 47% tape? >> nope. >> the empty chair? >> nope. >> cayman...